Protein Purification Scientist

Net2Source Inc. is an award-winning total workforce solutions company recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts for our accelerated growth of 300% in the last 3 years with over 5500+ employees globally, with over 30+ locations in the US and global operations in 32 countries. We believe in providing staffing solutions to address the current talent gap – Right Talent – Right Time – Right Place – Right Price and acting as a Career Coach to our consultants.

Company: One of Our Clients

Job Title – Associate Scientist - III

Location – South San Francisco, CA 94080

Duration – 12+ Months (Extendable)

Pay Rate: $40.00 - 48.97/hr on W2

Must haves:

• AKTA purification System

• Protein purification experience

• Protein A antibody purification preferred.

• Protein characterization experience with HPLC

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or PhD in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, life sciences or in related scientific field with minimum 4 years of relevant experience in wet lab work

Experience/skills required:

• Experience with basic protein purification and characterization techniques (i.e., protein A and nickel capture, HPLC, SDS-PAGE, Endotoxin testing, etc.) is highly preferred.

• Ability to calculate protein concentrations and dilutions.

• Experience with single- and multi-channel manual pipettes.

Software:

• General computer skills and ability to quickly learn and master computer programs, databases, and scientific applications.

• Knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite

Personality:

• Effective communication and organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to follow written procedures.

• Ability to learn basic analytical skills faster with training.

• Ability to multi-task while working safely and independently.

Responsibilities:

This role involves assisting the protein production group in various routine activities, which could include the following:

• Participate and assist in the daily activities of the purification group such as antibody and antigen purification, and characterization by various techniques including protein concentration determination, CE-SDS, SDS-PAGE, various HPLC methods, and endotoxin measurement.

• Prepare formulation and analytical buffers for scientists and help scientists in the laboratory to maintain laboratory equipment (AKTA, Waters, Agilent, Thermo, Caliper, and more).

• Assist lab manager for submitting work orders for lab equipment/computer repair and oversee the technician during the repair visit.

• Sample vialing, including labeling tubes and aliquoting either manually or with automation.

• Assist inventory personnel in sub-aliquoting any existing purified proteins for requestors.

• Support the protein expression group in activities such as basic cell culture, transfection, harvest, titer check, and general maintenance of the cell culture lab such as filling incubators and water baths, monitoring temperature and CO2, and checking DNA inventory.

• Perform daily priming for Caliper (CE-SDS) instrument for all scientists in the laboratory to use.

Awards and Accolades:

• America's Most Honored Businesses (Top 10%)
• Awarded by USPAAC for Fastest Growing Business in the US
• 12th Fastest Growing Staffing Company in USA by Staffing industry Analysts in the US (2020, 2019, 2020)
• Fastest 50 by NJ Biz (2020, 2019, 2020)
• INC 5000 Fastest growing for 8 consecutive years in a row (only 1.26% companies make it to this list)
• Top 100 by Dallas Business Journal (2020 and 2019)
• Proven Supplier of the Year by Workforce Logiq (2020 and 2019)
• 2019 Spirit of Alliance Award by Agile1
• 2018 Best of the Best Platinum Award by Agile1
• 2018 TechServe Alliance Excellence Awards Winner
• 2017 Best of the Best Gold Award by Agile1(Act1 Group)

Regards,

Kajal Singh

Associate IT Recruiter (Pharma and Life Sciences)

Net2Source Inc.

Global HQ Address –270 Davidson Ave, Suite 704, Somerset, NJ 08873, USA

Office: (201) 340-8700 x 980 | Cell: (201) 777-4217 | Fax: (201) 221-8131| Email: singh.kajal@net2source.com